October 11, 2008


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY


RIGHT-WINGERS ARE WRONG ON EVERYTHING


Right-wing political philosophy in the United States is a little like Dorian Gray mixed with Fantasyland. At first glance, it's like Dorian Gray, very appealing in its concept that you can be "free" of the government and that you, too, can get rich. That's when Fantasyland kicks in. You believe that huge tax cuts for the rich will miraculously transform the economy into a giant money machine that will shower wealth down on everyone. You can simultaneously spend massive amounts on the military and make the United States the toughest kid on the block, cut taxes for the rich, and actually get a budget surplus. You can put prayer back in the schools, discriminate against gay people and other minorities, and take us back to the "good old days." This commentary by Bob Herbert is at www.nytimes.com:


Voters in the George W. Bush era gave the Republican Party nearly complete control of the federal government. Now the financial markets are in turmoil, top government and corporate leaders are on the verge of panic and scholars are dusting off treatises that analyzed the causes of the Great Depression.
Mr. Bush was never viewed as a policy or intellectual heavyweight. But he seemed like a nicer guy to a lot of voters than Al Gore.

It’s not just the economy. While the United States has been fighting a useless and irresponsible war in Iraq, Afghanistan — the home base of the terrorists who struck us on 9/11 — has been allowed to fall into a state of chaos. Osama bin Laden is still at large. New Orleans is still on its knees. And so on.

Voting has consequences.